My Grandmother's Yiddish Sayings & Quotes

Here are some great Yiddish saying that both of my grandfathers used to tell me, and others ones I've collected, too! Do you know any others? E-mail me at (morgan@westegg.com) and let me know!!! What did your grandparents used to tell you???
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One good deed has many claimants.

The whole world is one town

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Times is the best healer

They are making a big deal out of this. (Me makht a gants yontef derfun.)

The wicker person fares well in this world, the saint in the life to come. (Dem roshe geyt gut ofy der velt, dem tsadik oyf yener velt.)

A homely girl hates the mirror (A meeseh moyd hot faynt dem shpigl)

A half truth is a whole lie.

To every answer you can find a new question

He should grow like an onion with its head in the ground (Er zol vaksn vi a tsibele mit dem kop in drerd)


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